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long-necked, a.
Having a long neck (in various senses): used spec. in the names of some animals.
c1605Drayton Man in Moone 203 The long neck'd Heron there watching by the brim. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2422/4 A slender Horse, 5 years old,..long neck'd, thick jaw'd. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 337 A long-neck'd Vial, like a Matrass. 1835Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 27 The thing goes off with small damage to even a long-necked purse. 1854A. Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 69 Long-necked Tortoises (Chelydidæ). 1890Daily News 27 Sept. 2/1 The long-necked will rejoice to learn that collars are higher than ever. 1894Cosmopolitan XVI. 344 Gracefully long-necked plesiosauri. |